https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230681 ------- Comment #2 from andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de 2006-12-23 06:34 MST ------- I know that -remote is obsolete, the problem is that this application uses the exit status of firefox to support both the old (now obsolete) and the new way. The exit status of zero makes the application think that -remote worked, but it didn't actually work. IMHO, an application shouldn't report success on failure (if possible) and the mozilla.org binary doesn't do that. The above is if there is no instance of firefox running. But it's not much better if firefox is running. With the SUSE package: # /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com, new-tab)' Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable # echo $? 0 With the mozilla.org binary: # /tmp/firefox/firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com, new-tab)' (no output, it just works) # echo $? 0 I will contact the authors of this application and ask them to remove -remote usage, but that still doesn't explain the behaviour difference between firefox from SUSE and firefox from mozilla.org. I agree that they shouldn't use -remote any more, but unfortunately, I already know that none of them uses SUSE, so they might just say that it works for them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.